Tag Archives: Richmond Circuit Court

A Richmond Circuit Court says it has no jurisdiction to allow a plaintiff who is appealing to the circuit court a general district court’s dismissal with prejudice of his suit against “Unnamed Quartermaster,” to amend his complaint to identify that ...

A Richmond Circuit Court overrules a wife’s demurrer to her husband’s suit to terminate spousal support for cohabitation under Va. Code § 20-109(A); because the parties’ agreement was entered into after the enactment of the cohabitation bar provision, husband may ...

A volunteer who serves on a restoration committee for the vintage Wurlitzer organ at Richmond’s historic Byrd Theatre, and who was injured while attempting to repair the theatre organ, can sue the Byrd Theatre Foundation for negligence; a Richmond Circuit ...

A tenant who alleges injury from carbon monoxide exposure caused by a defective stove and furnace in her apartment leased from defendants can sue defendant landlord for breach of contract, but the Richmond Circuit Court sustains the landlord’s demurrer to ...

An invitee who was injured when he used a pull-down stairway to an attic on premises leased by his estranged wife under a written lease has not alleged a negligence claim against the landlord based on fraudulent concealment, as he ...

Although plaintiff earlier nonsuited a claim filed in another circuit court for breach of contract, that nonsuit does not preclude a nonsuit in this Richmond Circuit Court case, as the earlier suit sought to compel production of an LLC’s financial ...

A German national incarcerated in a Virginia prison for a double murder cannot sue the current Virginia governor for revoking permission for his transfer to German custody that earlier was granted by the current governor’s predecessor; a Richmond Circuit Court ...

After another circuit court sustained pleas in bar filed by defendants in this lawsuit, preventing three claims relating to defendant’s representation of plaintiffs of a decedent’s estate from going forward, the Richmond Circuit Court says the current suit is barred ...

The defendant ran a red light at an intersection in Henrico County. After striking the plaintiff, he left the scene of the accident. Defendant admitted being “high” when driving and admitted drinking one and a half cans (20 oz.) of ...

(AP) The Richmond Circuit Court on June 14 appointed a gay Richmond prosecutor to a General District Court judgeship a month after legislators blocked the appointment. Chief Judge Richard D. Taylor Jr. signed an order naming Tracy Thorne-Begland to the ...